Create Time for Self

I’ve recently put forth a question to all of the nurses I know about their biggest challenge that gets in the way of their self-care.  I received many replies and noticed a theme emerge.  Nurses responding with things like “I just do not have time to fit in any fun...

Receiving and Giving: Healthy Balance of Both

As nurses, we are a profession of “givers.”  Our role is to provide safe care, empathetic compassion, and healing nurture.  We are people who constantly give of ourselves.  We give to our patients, their families, our colleagues, our staff, and then to those in our...

Create Healthy Balance

…So the final continuation on my series related to balance.  I posted first on what balance meant to me, my description of it.  I then wrote about what it feels like to be both in and out of balance in our lives.  Next I shared how I was feeling within my own...

Balanced or Not

…So in an effort to keep up with my discussion and previous topic of health balance defined I will answer the next question in this series: What is life like in balance verses out of balance?  How does it feel to live a life of balance versus a life of...

Health Balance Defined

…So I had a conversation with a mentor of mine on some workshops we will be doing next year.  I was to do a workshop around energy and nutrition and she was going to be doing a workshop around balance.  She said to me, “You know what, I really think we...